Houston Police officers and detectives secure the scene where two people were found dead Saturday at a home in the 7100 block of Bahia Lane in Houston.

Houston Police officers and detectives secure the scene where two people were found dead Saturday at a home in the 7100 block of Bahia Lane in Houston.

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A mother and her adult son were found shot to death early Saturday in south Houston.

According to Houston police, the bodies were discovered by a family member around 8 a.m. at a house in the 7100 block of Bahia Lane.

Homicide investigator Joshua Horn said details were still sketchy. The identities of the deceased were not released, but the victims were believed to be a female in her 60s and a man in his mid-40s, police said.

There was no sign of forced entry and no weapon was recovered at the scene, but Horn said investigators are not ruling anything out.

No suspect had been identified Saturday, but police were looking for a 2001 black Dodge Dakota pickup with the license plate BLS 7589.

"It's supposed to be here at the scene, from the information we gathered," Horn said. "It's not here."

The family had lived on Bahia, in the Missouri City-area Briargate subdivision, since 1976, according to friends who gathered at the scene.

Darrin Thurman, who grew up in the area and now lives in California, said the woman recently retired as a special education teacher at Willowridge High School in the Fort Bend school district.

"This is really a good family," Thurman said. "There's only three or four families (from the old neighborhood) still here, and this is one of them. We always make our way to come and visit them when we're in town or in the neighborhood."

The woman's husband died several years ago, friends said. In addition to the son who died, she also has another son and twin girls, friends said.

Anyone with information about the missing pickup is asked to call the Houston Police Department's homicide division at 713-308-3600.